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S. H. RAYMOND.

VEHICLE SPRING.

No. 399,210. Patented Mar. 5, 1889.

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SILAS H. RAYMOND, OF GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN, ASSIGNOR TO GEORGE E.RAYMOND a; 00., OF SAME PLACE.

VEHICLE-SPRING.

SPIEGIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 399,210, dated March5, 1889. Application filed November 10, 1888. Serial No. 290,487. (Nomodel.)

ness for the purpose. lVhilc a double spring with its lever partconnecting the two and having the friction-roller is not new, per 82,yet in the novel combination of parts, with levers having thenon-slotted ends, I effect advantageous results in strength, conven- 5oience in construction, and place of location, and a more accuratebalance of the body when the burden therein is unequally distribl0 andsprings with the body and side bars of a uted. A vehicle -body thussupported by vehicle, as below described and claimed. spring-actuatcdlovers will move up and down In the drawings forming a part of this onalevehit matters not at what place the burspecification, Figure 1 is anunder plan view, den is located. Thus a heavy person sitting Fig. 2 asection on line 2 2 in Fig. 1, and Fig. l at one corner will not bearthat corner of the 15 3 is an enlarged view, of one of the springs. bodydown more than the entire portion of To rcZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, SILAS H. RAYMOND, acitizen of the United States,residing at Grand Rapids, county of Kent, State of Michigan,

5 have invented a new and useful Vehicle- Spring, of which the followingis a specification.

This invention has for its object the pe l l 1 l i l l culiarconstruction and association of levers Referring to the lettered partsof the draw- 1 the body. ings, I is a frame, which will serve to illus-3 Having thus described myinvention,whatl trate the bottom of avehicle-body. (Shown i claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters inFig. 1 bottom side up.) A are the ordinary Patent of the United States,is-

20 side bars. (Here shown broken.) Two lel In a vehicle, the leverspivoted to the vers, D, are pivoted to each end of the body body and.having the non-slotted lapping at e. From this point the levers extendlatends resting upon a spring attached to the erally in both directions,their inner ends lapbody, the other ends of said levers being atping ashort distance, Figs. 1 and 2,an l their inched to supports disconnectedfrom the 25 outer ends being attached to some suitable body,substantially as set forth.

supportas, for instance, as here shown, to 2. In combination, avehicle-body, the le the side bars, A, which are parallel with the vcrshaving the non-slotted lapping ends, and sides of the body. The lappedends of the I Spiral springs having the connecting hairpin levers I)rest upon springs-that is, they are l arm contacting the under side ofsaid lapping 0 supported by springs-and when the vehicleends,substantially as set forth.

body is borne downward the lapped ends of The combination of avehicle-body, the

said levers yield downward against a springlevers at each end pivotedthereto and havresistance. ing the lapping ends, the spiral springs hav-In Fig. 3 is shown a convenient spring for ing the hair-pin leverportions supporting said this purpose, consisting of a hair-pin leverlapped ends of the levers, and the side bars to portion, f, spirals'a,and ends S S, for attachwhich the outer ends of the levers are ating thesprings to the body-frame, so as to tached, substantially as set forth.bring the portion f against the under side of In testimony of theforegoing I have herethe lapped ends of the levers D, as in Figs. 1 untosubscribed my name in presence of two 0 and 2. Two of these springs arehere shown witnesses.

at each end of the body, but one will serve, SILAS Ii. RAYMOND. as thelever portion f will support both of the lVitnesses: lapped ends of thelevers D if the single ADoLPH B. MASON,

spring is made of proper strength and stiff- CORA K. MASON.

